Bill Press: Town Meeting Protestors ‘Taking a Page Right Out of a Nazi Playbook’
Taking a page right out of Nancy Pelosi’s playbook of implying that town hall meeting protestors are sporting swastikas, low rated radio host Bill Press is now accusing them of using Nazi tactics in a sanity-challenged column. This follows on the heels of Press’ attack on the protestors on Fox News as reported earlier this week by Seton Motley here in NewsBusters. Here is Press going completely over the edge on the subject of the protestors in his column:
…Taking a page right out of a Nazi playbook, organizers bus in professional protestors and arm them with instructions on how to take over meetings, shut down discussion, shout over any pro-health care reform speakers, and then post video of the resulting chaos on YouTube. It’s mob rule, pure and simple.
Having encouraged viewers to show up, sympathetic anchors on Fox News then pretend these are “grassroots” protests springing up spontaneously across the country in opposition to President Obama’s plans for health care reform. Nonsense. There’s not